Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Brazil and the world are all eyes today on the newly elected president who just took her oath as chief exec, the magnanimous lady Dilma Rousseff.
Rousseff replaces the very popular Lula da Silva who had to step down due to constitutional limits on presidential terms (2 terms only). Both leaders come from the same socialist party of Brazil, even as Rousseff once served as top cabinet aide of Lula, so we do expect a continuity of the redistributive policies of Lula.
A former guerilla, who was among the audacious patriots who dared to clash it out with the military dictatorships that were backed, or should we say installed by the U.S.A. She suffered incarceration and political torment, rose above those constrictions as democracy returned, and ascended to power like a phoenix.
To recall, Lula worked out to bring social equity to its fruition, the result of which enlarged the middle class in Brazil. Poverty alleviation programs have been churning out good results as more poor folks graduated to middle income status during his term. His government’s innovative cash transfer program is being copied by various countries in the world today including my own beloved Philippines.
Lula will surely be well remembered for his feats, and hopefully the socialist party that he belongs to will stand by those redistributive policies that were inspired foremost of all by socialist doctrines. For his feats, Lula became the world’s most popular and admired leader in the whole world, and put Brazil all the more at the center of the world’s global growth drivers.
We will all be missing Lula, the same way that we miss Mandela of South Africa. But no worry, there’s Lady Rousseff who will continue the Lula’s policies and programs and who will dare to innovate more in such areas as providing aid to developing countries that are in need. Rousseff will strengthen Brazil’s leadership in Latin America, enough to veer away the south from the hegemonistic bullying of the U.S.A.
I did echo my kudos to the honorable Rousseff after she won her electoral victory. Let me re-echo my greetings again:
Best wishes for you President Dilma Rousseff in your incumbency as chief executive of Brazil! Goodwill to all Brazilians! Mabuhay!
[Philippines, 04 January 2011]
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4 comments:
Hi Prof Argonza! Thank you for your great appreciation of my country, culture, and now our presidency. Love and goodwill!
Well, what a nice appreciator of Latin America you are, Prof Erle. Pls keep that up, you warm up our hearts.
I am no fan of Rousseff, but I love to see Asians like Prof Argonza express fondness for my country, culture, politics, economy, history. You have a way of making me re-think the way I view our new president here.
Rough and tumble times for Latin America, but with Rousseff with us who is Lula's protege I'd be refreshed a bit. From Argentina goes my regards to Brazil, kudos too for Rousseff's victory.
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